At The Origin of Life, There’s No Shortcut to Energy-Harnessing

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, Stairway to Life co-author Rob Stadler and host Eric Anderson delve deeper into Challenge to Origin of Life: Energy Harnessing, an episode of the Long Story Short intelligent design video series. Could the first cell have been much simpler than any current cell, making it easier for it to emerge through blind natural forces on the early Earth? Stadler and Anderson surface one big problem with that idea: in experiments to make relatively simple cells even simpler, the cells inevitably become less robust and adaptable. These simpler cells must be coddled to survive. But the first cell on earth would have been anything but coddled. Tune in to learn more! Source

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0:00.0	ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to ID the Future.
0:14.1	I'm Eric Anderson, and we're joined again today by Dr. Robert Stadler to continue discussing
0:18.8	the importance of energy harnessing in the origin of life.
0:22.2	Stadler has degrees in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and medical engineering.
0:27.6	He is also co-author of the recent book, The Stairway to Life, An Origin of Life Reality Check.
0:33.0	Thanks for being back with us, Rob.
0:34.6	Hi, Eric. Good to be here. Thank you.
0:36.4	So last time we were talking about a wonderful new video in this series, Long Story Short,
0:40.3	on the Discovery Science YouTube channel that you've had an opportunity to be involved with,
0:44.3	along with a number of other scientists.
0:46.3	And we were talking about this remarkable system, ATP synthase, and how that machine
0:51.3	works with the proton gradient across the membrane and everything that was
0:55.6	going on with that.
0:57.0	And at the end, Rob, you were talking about an alternative approach to producing a small amount
1:00.7	of ATP, which is fermentation.
1:02.8	Remind us just a little bit about that, and then I'd like to ask a follow-up question to
1:06.4	that.
1:07.3	Yeah, so the bigger process that almost all of life uses first produces a proton gradient across the membrane.
1:16.2	And then it uses ATP synthase to convert that proton gradient into ATP, kind of like charging up batteries.
1:25.1	And then finally, those batteries get used to do all of the,
1:28.8	all of the activities of keeping life going, basically, the building of molecules and replicating
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